Canada's National Observer
{{short description|Canadian national journalism website}}
{{Other uses|National Observer (disambiguation)}}
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| type = Daily news website
| format = Online newspaper
| owners = Observer Media Group
| publisher = Linda Solomon Wood
| chiefeditor = Adrienne Tanner
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| foundation = {{Start date|2015}}
| headquarters = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Canada's National Observer (CNO) is a news website that features daily news, analysis and opinion on energy, climate, politics, and social issues.{{cite web |first=Laura Hazard |last=Owen |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/we-stepped-in-and-started-doing-it-how-one-woman-built-an-award-winning-news-outlet-from-her-dining-room-table/ |title=We stepped in and started doing it |work=Nieman Foundation for Journalism |date=January 2018 |access-date=October 23, 2020}} By 2015, CNO had a Vancouver office and later opened offices in Ottawa and Toronto.{{Cite AV media |title = Our Oily Media |url = https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/our-oily-media/ |work = Canadaland |access-date = January 3, 2016 |date=April 26, 2015 |people=Jesse Brown, Linda Solomon Wood}}
History
In its 2016 Kickstarter campaign, CNO described the journalism it set out to do as a "dramatic new series about the world's fight to beat climate change."{{Citation | title = Reports from the Race Against Climate Change| work = Kickstarter |date=2016}} The original team included Charles Mandel, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Bruce Livesey, Sandy Garossino, Jenny Uechi, Mike De Souza, Valentina Ruiz Leotaud, and Bruno De Bondt, with Linda Solomon Wood as editor-in-chief." The campaign crowdsourced $70,863 from 784 backers. The 2016 Kickstarter campaign listed issues that CNO's investigative journalists would cover, including the role of corporations that impede change, climate policies related to the 2015 Paris Agreement, food security, the oil sands, hydraulic fracturing in Canada, and animal welfare. The centrepiece of CNO's launch was Bruce Livesey's May 4, 2015 article, "How Canada made the Koch brothers rich.".{{Cite news |title = How Canada made the Koch brothers rich|url = https://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/05/04/news/how-canada-made-koch-brothers-rich|website = National Observer |access-date = January 3, 2016 |first = Bruce |last=Livesey |date=May 4, 2015}} On January 1, 2016, CNO published the first in a special series of articles on the Great Bear Rainforest in partnership with Tides Canada, Teck, and Vancity.{{Cite news| last1 = Solomon Wood| first1= Linda| first2 = Chris |last2=Hatch | title = Great Bear Rainforest: Canada's gift to the world| work = National Observer| access-date = October 24, 2020| date = January 27, 2016| url = https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/27/news/great-bear-rainforest-canadas-gift-world}}
In a 2016 article, National Post columnist Terence Corcoran described a "newspaper war" between the Postmedia Network and the Toronto Star.{{Cite news |last=Corcoran |first=Terence |date=February 20, 2016 |title=A falling Star: No cash in its dowry, declining revenues and no obvious marriage prospects |work=National Post |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/the-falling-star-no-cash-in-its-dowry-declining-revenues-and-no-obvious-marriage-prospects |access-date=August 28, 2019}} He criticized Torstar
In October 2017, CNO teamed up with The Toronto Star, Global News, the Michener Awards Foundation, the University of Victoria-led Corporate Mapping Project"[https://www.corporatemapping.ca/our-team/ The Corporate Mapping Project] brings together a large team of academic and community-based researchers, and advisors from environmental, Indigenous, labour and independent media groups. The project is hosted by the University of Victoria, and jointly led by UVic, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Parkland Institute, together with a larger group of partners." and four journalism schools for "the largest collaborative journalism project in Canadian history."{{Cite web| last = Inniss| first = Sandra| title = Ces petites salles de nouvelles qui enquêtent| work = JSource| access-date = October 24, 2020| date = November 10, 2017| url = https://j-source.ca/article/ces-petites-salles-de-nouvelles-qui-enquetent/}} The "Price of Oil" project was created for the purpose of "tracking oil industry influence in partnership with investigative journalism students from across the country."{{Cite magazine| last = Beers| first = David| title = A good news story about the news in British Columbia| magazine = The Conversation| access-date = October 24, 2020 |date=November 8, 2017 | url = http://theconversation.com/a-good-news-story-about-the-news-in-british-columbia-87091}}
See also
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